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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''proletarian revolution''', '''communist revolution''', or '''socialist revolution''' is a type of [[social revolution]] in which the [[proletariat]], the [[working class]] of [[capitalist society]], overthrows and suppresses the [[bourgeois]] [[ruling class]]. Like all social revolutions, while a proletarian revolution has proletarian objectives and a proletarian character, other classes in society also play a crucial role in its success, including [[peasants]] and the [[petty bourgeoisie|petty]] and [[national bourgeoisie]]. [[Anarchism|Anarchists]] may vary on whether an [[anarchist revolution]] should be led by and for the industrial working class or should be led by, for example, the peasantry or the [[lumpenproletariat]].<!--Anarchists verify this? Role of peasants in anarchism?--><br />
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[[Karl Marx]] argued that the forcible overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the workers would itself constitute the formation of a [[dictatorship of the proletariat]]; however, anarchists disagree with this characterization of the nature of the coming social revolution.<br />
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Dozens of proletarian revolutions have been attempted in the two centuries since the dawn of developed industrial society. Karl Marx and [[Friedrich Engels]] considered the European [[Revolutions of 1848]], particularly in [[France]], to be the first attempt at proletarian revolution. The [[Paris Commune]] of 1871 was the first success, and the [[Russian Revolution]] of 1917 was the first to continue to hold power for more than a few months. Such revolutions are only high points in the continuous process of [[class struggle|class warfare]] that occurs in every capitalist state around the world and colors every political movement: even [[fascism]] as it was forced to co-opt socialist rhetoric, and [[Islamism]], which in [[Iran]] relied on the proletariat to [[Iranian Revolution|overthrow the Shah]]. As Marx and Engels predicted in 1848, "none but a proletarian revolution is any longer possible" in capitalist countries.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1895/03/06.htm</ref>{{bsn|reason=Didn't marx say this c. 1850? this source is from the 1890s}}<br />
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